A celebration of the BBC Proms 2021
Episode m000x7ww, broadcast at Friday 25th June 2021, 7:00pm.
“Get ready for The Proms with a mix of performers, composers, and pieces from the 2021 season. Featuring exciting artists making their BBC Proms debut this year, including Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, guitarist Sean Shibe, The Manchester Collective, John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London, and jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia. With an old Proms favourite from the BBC Concert Orchestra, Bach's majestic St Matthew Passion which you can hear in full at the BBC Proms 2021, and the incredible Kanneh-Masons who are performing in this year’s Family Prom. Plus, Last Night of the Proms singer Stuart Skelton, and the Monteverdi Choir with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who is celebrating his 60th year at the BBC Proms. And music from two composers with big anniversaries this summer: Igor Stravinsky, 50 years after his death, and Camille Saint-Saëns, 100 years on.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Fantasia on British Sea Songs
- Conductor Barry Wordsworth
- Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra
- Composer Henry Wood
- 2:02 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847 (Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Víkingur Ólafsson
- 3:24 – String Quartet No.2 'Company': 1
- Composer Philip Glass
- Ensemble Manchester Collective
- 6:29 – Straussiana (track 6, Korngold - Symphony in F sharp)
- Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Conductor John Wilson
- Orchestra Sinfonia of London
- 12:57 – Take me away, and in the lowest deep there let me be (The Dream of Gerontius) (track , Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius & Sea Pictures)
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Andrew Davis
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Singer Stuart Skelton
- 16:21 – Once (extract) (track 5, We Out Here)
- Performer Nubya Garcia
- Performer Daniel Casimir
- Performer Joe Armon-Jones
- Performer Femi Koleoso
- 19:10 – Farewell to Stromness (track 8, An Orkney Wedding)
- Performer Sean Shibe
- Composer Peter Maxwell Davies
- 23:24 – Pulcinella (Overture)
- Composer Igor Stravinsky
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor Robert Craft
- 25:18 – O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (Matthauspassion BWV 244)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Ensemble English Baroque Soloists
- Choir Trinity Boys Choir
- 27:13 – Finale (Le carnaval des animaux) (track , Decca 4851156)
- Performer Timothy Ridout
- Performer Isata Kanneh-Mason
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Performer Sheku Kanneh-Mason
- Performer Braimah Kanneh-Mason
- Performer Ayla Sahin
- Performer Toby Hughes
- Performer Mark Simpson
- Performer Alasdair Malloy
- Performer Konya Kanneh-Mason